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October 29, 2013 09:26 pm GMT

Buzzy Photo App Frontback Shuns Twitter Interest, Raises Millions Instead

frontback picFrontback, the photo app that lets users create composite images using the front and rear cameras on their iPhone handsets, is on a roll. Launched only in August of this year, it's now picked up some 300,000 downloads on virtually zero marketing budget -- but a lot of buzz from the likes ofAshton Kutcher,Jack Dorseyand... wait for it.. thePrime Minister of Belgium, posting their Frontbacks on Twitter and elsewhere.And that is giving it some other momentum: Frontback has closed a new round of funding of around $3 million, and we have also learned that before that round was closed, Twitter approached Frontback to buy it.

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